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Euphemism is the verbal equivalent of draping nude statues. Doing so substitutes unthreatening words for ones that make us fidget.
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The Euphemism is of no practical use. All you ever get out of graduating from poor to needy, from need to deprived, from deprived to underprivileged, and from underprivileged to disadvantaged is a great vocabulary.
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A Euphemism is a figure of speech in which the speaker or writer makes his expression a good deal softer than the facts would warrant him in doing.
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